Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer—that sci-fi dystopia set on a train that we’ve been looking forward to forever and a half—finally has a US release date: June 27th, 2014. As per an agreement with distributor The Weinstein Company, it’ll come out uncut, but only in limited release.

Fireside Magazine Year 3 – a monthly multigenre fiction magazine. During Year One, we learned how to make a magazine, and put out three issues. In Year Two, we shifted to monthly publication and experimented with serial fiction. Now it’s time to get the business end sorted out. We plan to shift to a sustainable, ongoing funding model so we don’t have to do these big campaigns, and we will spend Year 3 getting that together.

10 things Angel did better than any other show: “Melding many different elements from multiple genres, the show was able to effectively balance action, drama, romance and mystery into a singular hour that was equally adept at making you laugh or cry, while still leaving you unmistakably entertained”.

The AudioBookaneers covers the release week in sf/f audiobooks, with picks including Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance, Mur Lafferty’s Ghost Train to New Orleans, Marie Brennan’s Tropic of Serpents, Sally Green’s Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes.

HBO’s official Game of Thrones rap album has arrived. You can stream it for free on SoundCloud. If you don’t want to listen to all of it, at least give Dominik Omega’s “Arya’s Prayer” a listen. Before you begin, though, you might want to read Geekosystem’s review.

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Pipedreamergrey is a hardcore geek who has never met a fandom he didn't like. Whether blogging, gaming, or programming, he can usually be found online hiding behind a web handle created back when web handles were still cool. His twin passions are vintage science fiction and the modern day technologies making that fiction an everyday reality.

1 Comment on SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-03-08

Not entirely sure what point was trying to be made by the “half the books in homes unread” post. It probably isn’t a stretch to say that half the books in my house are unread. I love reading, but I love procuring books even more, as evidenced by how quickly I bring books into the home each month. It is impossible to actually read quick enough to tip that balance. And much to the joy of authors and publisher producing new work, I’m not about to stop buying books that catch my eye.

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From The Dragon Page comes this link to the Jar Jar Binks Death Kit. In includes a puppet, fake knife and blood, instructions and a mystery gift! It's the perfect gift for the Star Wars fanboy purist! You know, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!